"Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently."
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"Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children."
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"I was supposed to be having the time of my life."
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"If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating."
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"Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering."
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"Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think."
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"A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife."
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"When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard."
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"This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue."
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"I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty."
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"On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping."
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"I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence...luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged."
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"The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities."
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"I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?"
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"I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood."
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"I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them."
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"If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows."
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"I like people too much or not at all."
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"People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them."
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"And I, love, am a pathological liar."
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